Maliar, Pawlo (Pavlo Myrhorodskyi, pseud.)

[SIGNED] Khlib: Povist' = Bread: Story

Detroit: Prometheus, 1954. Item #1596

215 pages. Octavo (20 cm). Publisher's pictorial wrappers; light wear, minor edge-nicking, and corner creasing. Wrappers detached. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, dated 5 April 1955, with a warm dedication in Ukrainian.

The work depicts events in the Poltava region during the early period of the Second World War, portraying the dramatic transformation of rural life under wartime conditions. Maliar combines documentary observation with literary narrative, presenting village life, social tensions, and the moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people during the upheaval of the German-Soviet conflict.

Pavlo Maliar (1910–2005), also known under the pseudonym Pavlo Myrhorodskyi, was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and political activist. Educated in Kharkiv, he began publishing shortly before the war and later became part of the postwar Ukrainian émigré intellectual community. After leaving Ukraine in 1943, he lived in Austria and Germany before settling in the United States in 1950. In Detroit, he worked as editor of the periodical Ukrains’kyi Prometei and participated actively in émigré literary and political life. His works often combine historical reflection with vivid ethnographic and cultural detail drawn from Ukrainian rural life.

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